Bank of America - Pennington, NJ
posted 6 days ago
About the position
This job is responsible for performing end-to-end investigations or investigations support functions of external financial crimes activities across one or more lines of business. Key responsibilities include conducting routine to complex investigations, including fraud committed by external parties, money laundering, or terrorist financing and acting as the liaison to Law Enforcement as required. The Global Financial Crimes Compliance (GFCC) Investigator performs end-to-end investigations across one or more lines of business relevant to the Investigators specific area of responsibility. The Investigator conducts routine to complex investigations, including but not limited to fraud committed by external parties, money laundering, human and narcotics trafficking, and terrorist financing.
Responsibilities
- Completes investigations while ensuring cases meet or exceed closure and quality metrics
- Completes Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) in a timely and accurate manner for submission to regulators and/or law enforcement
- Reports facts of the investigation to senior stakeholders, assisting in identifying potential operational or compliance risks and partners with Global Financial Crimes (GFC) Management and/or Front Line Units (FLU) to resolve investigations
- Performs quality control functions, training, communications, guidance, monitoring scenario development/enhancement input and testing, and law enforcement liaison responsibilities in an investigative support role
Requirements
- Knowledge of criminal typologies and experience investigating financial crimes
- Technical or Functional Experience in Financial Services and/or related government entity
- Knowledge of global markets, banking and investment banking businesses, and related financial crimes risks
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to distill a complicated fact pattern into a coherent and concise narrative
- Proficiency with MS Office programs and ability to quickly learn proprietary technology applications
- Experience analyzing large amounts of data, intelligence and information in order to detect suspicious activity
- Ability to work in a high energy environment and to adhere to strict deadlines
- Be a team player, with ability to work independently
- Exercise discretion while prioritizing case work based upon management direction
- Ability to thoroughly analyze and make case related decisions with justification
- Experience using closed-sourced and open-sourced research channels
- Knowledge of global markets, banking and investment banking businesses, and related financial crimes risks
Nice-to-haves
- SIE, Series 3, Series 4, Series 7, and/or Series 24 licenses
- Knowledge of anti-money laundering (AML) regulation and guidance for broker-dealers
- BSA/AML knowledge and/or Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) certification
- Knowledge of FICC or Equity products and services and/or Prime Brokerage
